Water-heating device.



H. K. BBALBR. WATER HEATING DEViGE.

APPLIOATION FILED .JULY 19,1912.

1,079,826, Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

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HARRI SON BEALER, ALLENTQWN, PENNSYLVANIIL WATER-HEATING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25,1913.

Application filed July 1?, 1912 Serial No. 710,407.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HARRISON K. BEALER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vater-Heating Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to water heating devices, and the principal object of the invention is to produce a combined gas burner and water heating device of simple and improved construction adapted for the circulation therethrough of water for the purpose of heating the same.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and efiicient water heating gas burner which may be conveniently coupled up with a tank for the purpose of heating the contents thereof.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings,Figure 1 is a top plan view of a gas burner constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 33 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 44 in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 55 in Fig. 1.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

In Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, there has been shown a burner adapted to be used in connection with an ordinary gas cooking stove or range. The burner, which is of approximately circular contour, comprises a base plate 1 having a plurality of upright casings 2, 2, formed thereon in substantially parallel relation, said casings being spaced apart by the grooves or interspaces 3, 3, at the bottom of each of which apertures 4 are formed which extend through the base plate 1. The two outermost casings, which for convenience have been especially designated 2, 2, have been shown as having their outer walls disposed substantially tangential to the base plate. The several casings 2, 2, 2 are o1ned together so as to form a single continuous compartment which is divided by a horizontal partition or diaphragm 5 into upper and lower passages 6 and 7. The partition terminates short of an end wall 8 with which the casing 2 is provided, thus leaving between said end wall and the end of the partition 5 an opening 9, establishing communication between the upper and lower passages 6 and 7. The casing 2 has an end wall 10 which is provided with threaded aperturesl-l and 12 communicating, respectively, with the upper and lower passages 6 and 7 The partition 5, it will be observed, abuts upon and may be integral with the end wall 10.

It will be readily seen from the foregoing description that water entering through the lower aperture 12 will circulate through the passages 7 and 6 and escape through the aperture 11 The apertures 12 and 11 may be coupled up with a tank, the burner being installed upon a gas stove of ordinary construction.

The base plate 1 is provided on its underside with ducts or passages 17 communicat- 'ing with the apertures 45, said ducts constituting gas passages which may be supplied with gas through nozzles connected with a service pipe 18.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that I have produced a burner having a water circulating passage of considerable extent, the side walls of said passage being exposed throughout the length thereof to the action of the flames when the gas escaping through the apertures 4 is ignited. By dividing the water compartment horizontally into upper and lower passages the course traversed by the water is almost doubled, and the heating of the water will be rendered more effective.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. A combined water heater and gas burner having a gas compartment and a horizontally divided water circulating passage of tortuous form, said passage being provided at one end with an inlet and an outlet, the spaces between the limbs of the tortuous passage being provided with apertures communicating with the gas compartment of the burner.

2. A combined water heater and gas burner comprising a base plate, a tortuous water passage on the upper side of said plate including a plurality of parallel casings connected together, and a horizontal partition which extends through the entire compartment terminating at a distance from one end thereof which is closed, an inlet and an outlet at the opposite end of the compartment communicating respectively with the spaces below and above the horizontal par- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for tition, and gas ducts or passages on the underside of the plate, the latter being provided with apertures through which the gas ducts communicate with the open spaces between the limbs of the tortuous water compartment.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRISON K. BEALER.

Witnesses:

HARRY LA Roy PETERS, RAYMOND H. BEALER.

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